Post Media Literacy: Menyaksikan Kuasa Media Bersama Michel Foucault

This article would like to present Michel Foucault’s idea concerning Knowledge and Power in media industry. As a contemporary intellectual, Foucault’s thought has a unique style of postmodernism. His thought had gone beyond traditional critical theory whose trying to disclose the relation of power and economic behind the ideology of media. Foucault’s thought had given new perspective in understanding how the media produce truth under tightly control process into something that seems normal. With the assumption of media has the power to create mass culture, which has to be studied critically by media literacy approach, Foucault’s thought had given new space of discursive. An alternative thought on how to estimate the work of mass media as supervisor of truth and creator of information trough normalization practice

Simulasi Mistik Dan Implosi Makna Religius Dalam Sinetron Rahasia Ilahi Pada Stasiun Televisi Tpi

Simulation of mystic in mystical-religious ‘Rahasia Ilahi\u27 television movie, broadcastedby TPI, is the main focus of this article. Simulation is a thought from Jean Baudrillard (1929-2007) about production of media text which does not have any reality background. Theoretically,a simulation ended when human, as the subject, has no control over sign, as the object,which in the end, the both merge and turn into a new reality. The merger of the subject and theobject mark the emergence of an implosion. Implosion is an inward explosion as a result of themerger of several thoughts through simulation practice. Mystical simulation in ‘Rahasia Ilahi\u27television movie could deliver a new and shallow meaning of religious because it had set offfrom the truth of text and reality as the context. The new meaning could be that the image ofGod is cruel. There could also be newmeaning of religiosity that faith is constructed by fear, notby the truth of the religious thought. Thereby, simulation had become dilemma because it hadtwo meanings. In one side, it is emancipative because it can deliver sharp critics toward thepeople of television industry who produce television programme which has no reality basis. Inthe other side, it has negative side because simulation ended with fatalism which is theoreticallyassumes that subject has no control over object. Pataphysically, this article would like to recommendthat subject should return to the power of imagination, rationality, and spirituality. Humanas the subject would never loose and cannot be defeated by any object because as khalifah,human should stand in the front line and leading history

POLITIK PEMBERITAAN DALAM KASUS KORUPSI PETINGGI PARTAI POLITIK (Analisis Isi Berita Kasus Korupsi Luthfi Hasan Ishaaq, Anas Urbaningrum, dan Ratu Atut Chosiyah pada Koran Tempo, Kompas, dan Republika)

Corruption involving officials of political parties occurred during the year 2013 to get the most attention from the media. Among those cases, cases involving Anas Urbaningrum (Democrat Party), Lutfi Hasan Ishaaq (Social Welfare Party), and Ratu Atut Choisyah (Golkar Party) gets more attention. Not only because of the amount of cases that involve him, but also with regard to their position in the party respectively. The mass media has a point of view of each, which is called by the political news. Political news, consciously or not, the media made the construction of each in light of a case, including the reporting of corruption cases involving officials of political parties in Indonesia.This study aimed to determine: (1) How the news media tendency toward corruption case involving three political party officials (Lutfi Hasan Ishaaq, Anas Urbaningrum, and Ratu Atut Chosiyah)? And, (2) How the construction of reality that is built up of news about third parties which officials are involved in corruption cases? By using the content analysis method, the results showed, in the third news media, Koran Tempo, Kompas, nor Republika, the news media about the third third corruption case involving the three leaders of political parties, if the terms of journalistic work procedures, it appears that elements of prominence become the main dish in the news. The three media have also made a good construction on the dangers of corruption, however, should be aware that the news media is not used for political purposes

DEMOKRASI VIRTUAL DAN PERANG SIBER DI MEDIA SOSIAL: PERSPEKTIF NETIZEN INDONESIA

Several hate speech which spread in social media activity aroused because of freedom of speech euphoria in a democratic nation. Those hate speech had effectively used as a negative campaign during election. This study aims to analyze hate speech and cyber war in social media. The method used is qualitative with data retrieval through in-depth interviews of netizens as opinion makers in social media, document studies and literature studies relevant to the research. The study found that cyber warfare in social media has formed two netizen polarizations. The polarization can be identified as conservative and liberal groups. Both groups are actively producing discourse, opinion, information, issues and rumors through social media. This study has implications for the change or shift of opinion leader concept on the theory of two step communication. The concept of opinion maker in the new media tradition that emerges today allows anyone anonymously to become opinion leaders

PENGGUNAAN MEDIA SOSIAL DAN KEMARAHAN RELIGIUS DALAM KASUS PEMBAKARAN VIHARA DI KOTA TANJUNG BALAI, INDONESIA

Public activities carried out on social media may trigger religious identity based social riot. Such social unrest is observed to have surfaced initially as religious rage channeled via social media. It is, indeed, a fact that various issues on religion, which is regarded as sacred, hallowed, and revered, are discussed freely on social media, and it may very easily incite social turbulence. In the case of vihara burning and rioting in the city of Tanjung Balai, North Sumatera, Indonesia, a social riot was instigated by users of social media who mutually provoked resentment against one another, there was also the Budha statue which posed as a latent triggering factor threatening inter-religious relations within societal culture fond of congregating. This article discusses the case of vihara burning which had occurred in Tanjung Balai, North Sumatera, Indonesia, where in research data were acquired through in-depth interviews with several informants active on social media, community figures, and police personnel.<br /

MEMBEBASKAN TUBUH PEREMPUAN DARI PENJARA MEDIA

This article discuss on body as reality subject. Awareness of body as subject is awareness of existed, placed and different. But as object, body is battle field for many ideologic interests. Those ideologic interests are competing to determine the body. Therefore body emerge as false body, an exhibit for many ideologic interests. Those ideologic interests could enter through sign consumption practice on body. The needs of body for many consumptions is stimulated by many pleasures provided by media. Sign consumption for body and body mediated by media are actually bodies that are imprisoned.Those bodies are watched, arranged, and being disciplined so they can reach the desirable body image condition. Body image that is mediated by media through many sign consumptions can be seen as a symptom of the death of human as subject. This symptom is part of dehumanisation as the result of global media industry. Through media persuasion, the process of the death of the body felt so smooth, relax, entertaining, flattering, and happy. Anyone who caught into the trap will not realise it and will become addicted and in the end he/she will experience decentering of the subject.[Artikel ini mendiskusikan studi tentang tubuh sebagai subjek realitas (khalifah). Kesadaran tubuh menjadi subjek ini adalah kesadaran menjadi ada, berada dan berbeda. Namun sebagai objek, tubuh merupakan ruang pertarungan bagi berbagai kepentingan ideologis. Berbagai kepentingan tersebut saling berlomba mendeterminasi tubuh. Sehingga tubuh yang hadir adalah tubuh palsu sebagai ruang pamer berbagai kepentingan ideologis. Kepentingan ideologis tersebut masuk melalui praktek konsumsi tanda pada tubuh. Kebutuhan tubuh terhadap berbagai konsumsi tersebut dirangsang melalui berbagai kenikmatan yang dijajakan oleh media. Konsumsi tanda bagi tubuh dan tubuh yang termediasi oleh media sesungguhnya adalah tubuh-tubuh yang dipenjara. Tubuh-tubuh tersebut diawasi, diatur dan didisiplinkan agar sampai pada satu kondisi body image yang diinginkan. Body image yang termediasi melalui media lewat berbagai konsumsi tanda dapat dilihat sebagai suatu gejala kematian manusia sebagai subjek. Gejala kematian ini bagian dari dehumanisasi sebagai dampak dari industri media global. Melalui rayuan media, proses kematian tubuh tersebut begitu cair, rileks, menghibur, menyanjung dan menyenangkan. Hingga tanpa terasa bagi siapa saja yang masuk dalam perangkap hasrat tubuh tersebut akan ketagihan hingga akhirnya mengalam decentering of the subject.

Terbentuknya Identitas Fans Sepak Bola sebagai Budaya Massa dalam Industri Media

Nowadays football is not merely sport. It has become industry, even popular culture. This happen because on the same time mass media grows into mass culture industry. The union of football and mass media as industry has melted few social and culture boundaries. Socially—through mass media—football had joined many social background into football fans identity, and it even connect all over the world. Football had transformed into popular culture that always moves in instability that drain its fans’s emotion. The football fans emotion in turn polarised into fans club which was created based on imaginary bound. Fans is the most visible part from text society and pop culture practice that could become fanatic. This fans fanatism phenomena could happen because the fans are pasif and patologic victim of mass media. This phenomena also mark the indication of transition from agricultural society into industrial and urban society

HOAKS DAN SPIRAL KEBENCIAN DI MEDIA SOSIAL (Pidato Pengukuhan Guru Besar dalam Bidang Ilmu Komunikasi Disampaikan di Hadapan Rapat Senat Terbuka Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta)

Judul ini saya pilih sebagai refleksi ilmiah saya, selaku intelektual yang baru mengabdi 14 tahun di UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Selama mengabdi sebagai dosen dan peneliti, berbagai interaksi saya dengan mahasiswa, kolega, dan pegawai turut mempengaruhi pikiran saya. Sebagai kampus besar yang melahirkan banyak pemikir besar, UIN Sunan Kalijaga tentu tidak saja mempengaruhi jalan pikiran saya, tetapi juga jalan pemikiran bangsa Indonesia. Mereka dibesarkan oleh UIN Sunan Kalijaga, dan saat ini UIN Sunan Kalijaga juga telah menghantarkan saya sebagai salah satu Guru Besar. Walau merasa bangga, tapi sejujurnya saya merasa bukan siapa-siapa dibanding para tokoh besar yang telah dilahirkan oleh UIN Sunan Kalijaga. Saya hanya dosen biasa yang melangkah di jalan takdir yang kuasa. Sebagai dosen biasa, saya juga memiliki keinginan menyumbangkan pemikiran saya untuk bangsa dan negara Indonesia yang lahir batin saya cintai sepenuh jiwa dan raga